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Msg# : 4587 Sat 5 Aug 89 4:46p
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From : Michael Corbin
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To : All
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Subject: Flying Saucers-Top Secret
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Status :
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To All:
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I have been reading a book by Major Donald Keyhoe titled 'Flying Saucers - Top
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Secret'. This book was copyrighted (C) 1960 by Donald Keyhoe. As you may
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know, Maj. Keyhoe was the Director of NICAP (National Investigations Committee
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on Aerial Phenomenon) back in the late 50's and 60's. I ran across a very
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interesting chapter, Chapter 16, which deals with the Navy investigation of a
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map which was discovered which caused them a great deal of concern. I am
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reprinting part of that chapter here for information. I am also interested in
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knowing if anyone might have further information on this map for discussion.
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Major Keyhoe is in a meeting with Captain John Brent and Commander Larsen.
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Captain Brent was one of Major Keyhoe's classmates at the Naval Academy.
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Keyhoe has arranged the meeting to ask about reports that there had been UFOs
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'observing rocket launchings at Cape Canaveral. And another report, from a
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missile technician at a different base, said they'd had to hold up launchings
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several times because of UFO interference.' During the discussion, the story
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comes out about the map....
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"Why do you think UFOs are watching us?" I asked.
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"They may be afraid we'll cause trouble out in space," said Larsen.
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"And they'd have reason to worry, if they were dealing with Soviet space
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fleets."
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"Have you ever thought," Captain Brent asked me quietly, "that the earth
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might be a colony started by another world?"
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I looked at him, startled. "I've heard it suggested, but--do you
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actually believe it?"
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"I'm certain of this much," replied Brent. "A race far more technically
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advanced than we are today was on earth thousands of years ago."
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He swung around to a cabinet, took out a folder. "The Hydrographic
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Office of the Navy has verified an ancient chart--it's called the Piri Reis
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map--that goes back more than 5,000 years. It's so accurate only one thing
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could explain it--a worldwide aerial survey."
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"That's almost incredible!" I said.
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"The Hydrographic Office experts couldn't believe it, either, at first.
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But they no only proved the map genuine, it's been used to correct errors in
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some present day maps."
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Commander Larsen leaned forward. "Tell him about the seismic
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soundings."
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"All right." The captain turned back to me. "The Director of Weston
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Observatory of Boston College is a top seismologist - Reverend Daniel Linehan,
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Society of Jesuits. He's so good that the Navy got him to help in the
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Antarctic, to find where there was land under the ice. The coast lines they
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found were identical with those on the Piri Reis map. So the map surveys
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would have to have been made centuries ago, before the land was buried by that
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deep ice.
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"Father Linehan revealed this on a Georgetown University Forum, as proof
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that this map is genuine. The forum transcript also contains statements by
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the Hydrographic Office engineer in charge of the evaluation of the map--Mr.
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M.I. Walters. Other significant points were made by A.H. Mallery, a retired
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sea captain--he's the man who persuaded the Navy to examine the Piri Reis map,
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after he realized how important the old chart was."
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So far, Captain Brent told me, only part of the complete Piri Reis map
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had been found, a section covering the coasts of South America, Africa and a
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portion of Antarctica. He showed me a copy of the ancient chart, then read
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the main points of the transcript.
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Early in the sixteenth century, Admiral Piri Reis, Turkish Navy, had
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acquired a map used by Columbus. Combining it with Greek maps dating back to
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Alexander the Great, he compiled a world chart in 1513.
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In 1953, a Turkish naval officer sent the Piri Reis map to the Chief
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Engineer of the United States Navy Hydrographic Office. To evaluate it, the
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Chief Engineer asked the aid of Captain Mallery, an authority on old maps, who
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had previously worked with him. After a long study, Mallery discovered the
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projection method used. Confirming this and other technical points, the Navy
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cartographers came to these conclusions:
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1. Columbus had a map, on his historic voyage to America, which showed
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the coasts of Yucatan, Guatemala, South America to the Straits of Magellan and
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a large part of the Antarctic coast.
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2. The original maps went back at least 5,000 years, and some data
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shown went back even farther. Part of the land areas shown had been buried
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under ice for twenty centuries or more.
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3. Only highly trained survey teams and cartographers could have
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produced charts of such "amazing accuracy." Their operations must have
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covered the entire earth.
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"We don't know how they could do it so accurately without the airplane,"
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Captain Mallery summed it up.
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Captain Brent put down the transcript.
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"Mallery was right. They couldn't have done it without some type of
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flying machine. And there are other indications of a highly advanced
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technology thousands of years before Christ."
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"But couldn't there have been an advanced earth race?" I inquired.
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"Archaeologists have found evidence of other lost civilizations."
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"Yes, but no trace of factories, laboratories or fuel plants. It would
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have taken a huge industry to build and maintain such an air fleet. But
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spaceships from another world wouldn't require any of that--they'd bring what
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they needed, just as we intend to do in our own space explorations.
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"For the first stages, our men will live aboard their ships, after
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landing on the moon and Mars. This unknown space race could have done the
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same thing, and from that point we've worked out several possible
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developments."
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Using the Piri Reis map evaluations, Captain Brent and Larsen had
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assumed spaceship landings at least 10,000 years ago. Before deciding on a
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colony, said Brent, the unknown explorers undoubtedly would have tested our
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atmosphere, gravity and other living conditions, to make sure their race could
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adjust to life on earth.
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If overpopulation on their own planet had led them to plan a large scale
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migration, they would plan a civilization like their own, as far as possible.
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Technically trained groups would be brought in first, then basic equipment,
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just as we plan for our own space colonies. Following this, emigrants from
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their own world would be ferried to earth in huge spaceships.
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"That's simple logic," said Captain Brent. "Our own planners expect
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giant spaceships, for this same purpose, within a century or two."
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"Yes," I said, "but if this had happened there'd surely be signs of
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advanced construction--different and better than anything we have today."
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Captain Brent agreed. "That's why we think something must have stopped
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them during the early stages. Possibly it was disaster on their own planet--
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accidental nuclear explosions, or an epidemic, or interplanetary war. Even if
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their world survived, the earth colony might be almost forgotten as they
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rebuilt. It could be centuries before their descendants got around to
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checking up."
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Meantime, Captain Brent continued, descendants of the first colony on
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earth would have developed on entirely different lines. When the spaceships
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failed to return, the colony members would be concerned mainly with survival.
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Lacking machines and other technical equipment, they would be forced into a
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primitive life, their advanced civilization but an unhappy memory. To later
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generations, struggling for existence, the link with another world would seem
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only a myth--if thought of at all.
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"And the net result," concluded Brent, "would be the same if the first
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group was deliberately abandoned here."
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"Abandoned?" I said. "But why should they be?"
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"To get rid of undesirables."
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"That's an ugly thought."
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"I don't mean criminals necessarily," replied the captain. "Though
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turning a planet into a Devil's Island isn't impossible."
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Commander Larsen grimaced. "Bein banished like that - most people would
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prefer a death sentence."
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Further....
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As I went out to the parking lot, I thought of another angle to the
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colony theory.
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What effect would this have upon religion?
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At first, it appeared to deny the Biblical story of man's creation. But
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the landing of spaceships on an already inhabited world would pose no such
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problem, and the space race still could have played a vital part in our
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civilization.
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Ten thousand years ago, spaceships could have landed with on opposition.
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The primitive tribes then on earth would have been awed, probably frightened
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into hiding. ....
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...More and more, I realized the difficulties of preparing the public.
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The most peaceful contact, even with beings like ourselves, would have a
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tremendous impact, raising a hundred questions.
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Why wasn't the CIA, or whatever agency was in control, already at work
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on a program of prepartion?
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Perhaps they were working on preparation. Recently, Don Ecker uploaded a file
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(USAFTXT.FIL) which contains the chapter removed from USAF training manuals
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dealing with the subject of UFOs. In this manual, there is discussion of
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possible involvement with UFOs going back as far as 50,000 years. This
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material was being widely taught to cadets in prepartion for their military
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careers until publicity after the Condon Committee's recommendation to disband
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Project Bluebook brought unfavorable criticism to the Air Force for teaching
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this despite the findings that UFOs are not real. The main point here is that
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apparently there was enough concern and curiousity on the part of the military
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to study the Piri Reis maps and conclude that they were authentic and the
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other conclusions that were derived from that study to indicate that they were
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sufficiently concerned about the UFO phenomenon to connect them with the maps.
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Another interesting note in this material is the conclusions that the
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military was drawing out of it in regards to the ancient civilizations.
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Mike
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--- FD 2.00
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* Origin: ParaNet-The World's Most Important Computer Network(sm)
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(1:104/422)
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